{"id":435,"date":"2014-11-04T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/11\/04\/this-film-critics-child-grew-up-with-some-help-from-the-terminator\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:24:00","slug":"this-film-critics-child-grew-up-with-some-help-from-the-terminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/11\/04\/this-film-critics-child-grew-up-with-some-help-from-the-terminator\/","title":{"rendered":"This film critic&#8217;s child grew up \u2013 with some help from the Terminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/motion-captured\/film-nerd-20-an-important-line-is-crossed-with-james-camerons-the-terminator\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--6bHIINkiG4\/VFkXtpHlyzI\/AAAAAAAABXo\/kMYuYPvU1V8\/s1600\/terminator_2602613b.jpg\" height=\"248\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Do you remember your first R-rated movie? Many people probably merged into the world of violent and dark films without great fanfare, but for others, graduating from PG-13 to R is a rite of passage and a sign that, yes, a parent figure thinks that you&#8217;re mature enough to enjoy that sort of movie.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for a heartwarming, inspiring story about this passage into young adulthood, look no further than a recent post from film critic Drew McWeeny. McWeeny showed his son an R-rated movie for the first time,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/motion-captured\/film-nerd-20-an-important-line-is-crossed-with-james-camerons-the-terminator\">in a very personal blog post<\/a>, he explains his son&#8217;s extreme enthusiasm for <i>The Terminator<\/i> and what it&#8217;s like watching a child take that first step into an unexplored, adult realm of culture. It&#8217;s a beautiful, emotional piece, generally about growing up but specifically about watching the next generation become film enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let McWeeny&#8217;s article speak for itself. It&#8217;s touching and highly worth a read if you get the warm-and-fuzzies thinking about the future relevance and magic of film.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember your first R-rated movie? Many people probably merged into the world of violent and dark films without great fanfare, but for others, graduating from PG-13 to R is a rite of passage and a sign that, yes, a parent figure thinks that you&#8217;re mature enough to enjoy that sort of movie. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,212],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inevitable-march-of-time","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}